A Look Back At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai 2018

Now that we’ve finally caught our breath after a fantastic two days at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Shanghai, let’s dive into some of the key highlights and news. The best part is we get to see so many of you so soon again at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle in December!

The sold-out event with more than 2,500 attendees (technologists, maintainers and end users of CNCF’s hosted projects) was full of great keynotes, presentations, discussions and deep dives on projects including Rook, Jaeger, Kubernetes, gRPC, containerd – and many more! Attendees had the opportunity to hear a slew of compelling talks from CNCF project maintainers, community members and end users including eBay, JD.com and Alibaba.

After hosting successful events in Europe and North America the past few years, it’s no wonder China was the next stop on the tour. Asia has seen a spike in of cloud native adoption to the tune of 135% since March 2018. You can find more information about the tremendous growth of cloud usage in China from CNCF’s Survey.

The conference kicked off by welcoming 53 new global members and end users to the Foundation, including several from China such as R&D China Information Technology, Shanghai Qiniu Information Technologies, Beijing Yan Rong Technology and Yuan Ding Technology. The CNCF has 40 members in China, which represents a little more than 10% of the CNCF’s total membership.

During the conference there were many great sessions on AI as well as a Kubernetes AI panel discussion that included product managers, data scientists, engineers, and architects from Google, CaiCloud, eBay, and JD.com

In further exciting China news, Harbor, the first project contributed by VMware to CNCF, successfully moved from sandbox into incubation. “Harbor is not only the first project donated by VMware to CNCF, but it is also the first Chinese program developed in the Chinese open source community donated to CNCF.”

Missed out on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai? Don’t worry as you have more chances to attend. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 is taking place in Seattle, WA from December 10-13. The Conference is currently sold out, but if you’d like to be added to the waitlist, fill out this form. You will be notified as new spots become available.

Also, massive kudos to the translators at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon who have been ON POINT. The translator for the Service Mesh panel was capturing and relaying a boatload of technical details in a staggeringly fast amount of time.